Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Red” in the USA?

Number of people named “Red” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Red” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Red” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Red” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Red” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Red” by birth year

This chart shows how “Red” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1888 5 0.000016696 5 -100%
1890 6 0.000019907 6 -100%
1906 6 0.000014004 6 -100%
1909 6 0.000011737 6 -100%
1911 5 0.000007761 5 -100%
1913 9 0.000007915 9 -100%
1914 11 0.000007766 11 -100%
1915 15 0.000008186 15 -100%
1916 13 0.00000672 13 -100%
1917 6 0.00000299 6 -100%
1918 7 0.000003224 7 -100%
1919 13 0.00000616 13 -100%
1920 12 0.000005304 12 -100%
1922 9 0.000003932 9 -100%
1923 12 0.000005212 12 -100%
1924 7 0.000002939 7 -100%
1925 16 0.000006857 16 -100%
1926 8 0.000003484 8 -100%
1927 11 0.000004743 11 -100%
1928 13 0.00000575 13 -100%
1929 5 0.000002281 5 -100%
1931 5 0.000002376 5 -100%
1932 7 0.000003316 7 -100%
1933 6 0.000003001 6 -100%
1934 5 0.000002408 5 -100%
1950 5 0.000001427 5 -100%
1952 5 0.000001316 5 -100%
1963 5 0.000001263 5 -100%
2001 5 0.000001336 5 -100%
2007 5 0.000001251 5 -100%
2009 6 0.000001571 6 -100%
2013 5 0.000001371 5 -100%
2014 11 0.000002968 11 -100%
2015 7 0.000001891 7 -100%
2016 10 0.000002726 10 -100%
2017 10 0.000002796 10 -100%
2018 10 0.000002844 10 -100%
2019 10 0.000002881 10 -100%
2020 9 0.000002694 9 -100%
2021 9 0.000002656 9 -100%
2022 16 0.000004729 16 -100%
2023 16 0.000004832 16 -100%
2024 18 0.000005408 18 -100%

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